Marlene Teixeira > Marlene's Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have no beginning nor an end,
I have no mother nor a friend.
Seldom do I give you warning or fear,
but when you think of me, you shall shed a tear.
So fair and just I'm known,
Like the wind and air that you cannot own,
On and on I shall continue,
When your heart hardens to a stone”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“Revenge is undertaken by men who would repay in kind the evil done to them”
― Tracy Higley

“Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn..." He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. "Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“You’d be surprised at the sorts of things hidden away in children’s songs.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Anyone who thinks boys are innocent and sweet has never been a boy himself, or has forgotten it. And anyone who thinks men aren’t hurtful and cruel at times must not leave his house often.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Epistles and Hymn of St. Patrick, With the Poem of Secundinus, Tr. [And] Ed. by T. Olden

“Tonight we dance, for tomorrow, come what may,it will be as it should. It will be all right.”
― Mary Weber, Siren's Song

“Who will speak my name so I might taste eternity if no one knows i ever drew breath?”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

“You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

“I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

“It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

“It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

“Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.”
― Aristotle

“They may have covered their lips with silk, but their words were unseathed daggers.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“I couldn't decide whether I thought reincarnation was a scare tactic or a hopeful message.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Show me a dream unrealized. Don’t show me unchangeable paths.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
― William James

“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.” - Sammy Davis, Jr. Churning”
― C.M. McCoy, Eerie

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may?”
― Simon Scarrow, The Fields Of Death

“Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.'

'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?'

'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“No, not like bacteria, like butterflies, and some people's butterflies react to other people's, on a chemical level, like pheromones, so that when they're nearby, your butterflies start to dance. They can't help it - it's chemical.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone